The Copyright Detective

09/25/2026

I will be making my last presentation of the year on copyright and AI to the League of Vermont Writers on Nov. 7th. The program will also feature Tanya Brockett who will how AI can be used to promote your book.

All are welcome to attend this virtual meeting. Sign up at https://leagueofvermontwriters.org and discover lots of things you didn't know that you didn't know about AI!

09/24/2026

This morning I read a news article about OpenAI hacking an Australian government website. The idea came to me to get ChatGPT, which is an OpenAI platform, to create an illustration of the four big AI companies trying to hack my PowerPoint presentation. The illustration below is the results. One of the things that caught my eye is the coffee cup with "The Copyright Detective" printed on it. I did not make any reference to "The Copyright Detective" in the prompt, but it knows who I am.

07/22/2026

Make that two OpenAI models that went rogue, according to an Associated Press release.

07/22/2026

Open AI posted a blog about one of its AI models "escaping" its containment during a security test and went rogue, attacking a startup AI model "Hugging Face" last week.

The "Hugging Face" company used an open source Chinese AI model to block the attack.

This has set off alarm bells in the cybersecurity community!

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-says-ai-models-went-rogue-during-testing-triggering-unprecedented-breach-2026-07-21/

07/07/2026

This is how ChatGPT recognizes this new record time to get a permission finalized.

07/07/2026

Today was a new record time to get a permission - 13 months. This is for song lyrics and composition for one of two writers for a song that a client wants to use in an audiobook. It also took 12 months for Sony to finally approve a master license for a recording of the same song.

But we finally will be getting the licenses needed!

06/10/2026

The Indie Authors Tell All Podcast in which I was a guest was released today. The discussion included impacts of artificial intelligence on the independent publishing industry, particularily around the copyrightability of AI-generated and AI-assisted content. Have a watch and listen at

In this episode of Indie Authors Tell All, host Judy M. Baker sits ...